GEL 5 million from the municipalities of Adjara for a company linked with Russian businessmen
The Sever company, which has links with Russian businessmen, wins tenders related to the care of stray animals and operation of a landfill without competition in the municipalities of Adjara. In total, Sever has received GEL 4,979,714 since 2013, mor
“Bureaucratic Scalpel” Against Critical Media
One year before the parliamentary elections, when the openness of the Parliament and increased access to information about the activities of individual parliamentarians are even more important, the Parliament has become an even more closed and opaque
Director of the State Agency for Supporting Employment fails to declare property and income
Director of the State Agency for Supporting Employment Nino Veltauri failed to disclose her salary and her family’s real estate in her 2022 asset declaration.Veltauri and her spouse, Tamaz Gvantseladze are in possession of 7 non-declared real e
Who are the new non-judge members of the High Council of Justice, and what are their connections
On May 17, the Parliament of Georgia elected three non-judge members of the High Council of Justice (HCoJ) - Tristan Benashvili, Giorgi Gzobava, and Zurab Guraspashvili. After June 2021, the HCoJ has been functioning without five non-judge members. T
What the Georgian Register of Beneficial Owners should look like
Transparency International Georgia previously wrote about the reasons why a register of beneficial owners (BO) needs to be set up in Georgia. We spoke about the need for citizens to know who ultimately owns companies that are strategically important
The tender of the Georgian Railway may have been tailored to the company of a former high-ranking police official
The company of a former high-ranking official of the Tbilisi Main Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ioseb (Soso) Alavidze, has allegedly obtained a contract worth GEL 7.8 million from the Georgian Railway by means of a tender tailored to
Political Donations Quarterly Newsletter No. 3
Statistics of donations From January 1 up to March 31, 2023, all the parties have received donations of GEL 640,569 in total. Almost half of this amount – GEL 300,000 – went to the ruling party, Lelo for Georgia ranked second with GEL 201
MP Zaal Dugladze is one of the largest beneficiaries of the State Agrocredit Program
Four companies linked with a member of the Parliament of Georgia, Zaal Dugladze, have received a total of GEL 8,562,573 through the State Agrocredit Program in the years 2013-2022. Along with Zaal Dugladze, a brother of Bidzina Ivanishvili, Alexander
Head of Georgian Post Levan Chikvaidze fails to disclose income and companies
Over the past two years, Levan Chikvaidze, the Director of the Georgian Post, has not disclosed the income he receives from being a director of four state-owned companies in his asset declaration. Previously, Chikvaidze's income at Georgian Post